Nashville for All of Us spreads the leftover wealth

Several organizations that work on adult literacy for immigrants in Nashville are getting leftover money from the campaign that worked to defeat the English-only proposal in January.

Jim Hester, a senior adviser to Mayor Karl Dean who took a leave of absence to run the campaign, said it had about $15,000 left after paying all of its expenses. That money is going to the Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition, Conexion Americas and the Sudanese Community Center, as well as the Nashville Adult Literacy Council, which hasn’t received its check yet.

Hester declined to say how much money each group got. His group, Nashville for All of Us, and Councilman Eric Crafton’s Nashville English First have until April 10 to file final campaign financial disclosures, which will show all of their revenues and expenditures.

Crafton’s controversial English-only proposal would have required Metro government to do all business in English, though the council could have made some exceptions. Opponents defeated the initiative by 9,608 votes.